Solar (BAUD) wrote:
The PIV message posted earlier initiated some interesting comments, so I think this one can be just as interesting: HP dropping PA-RISC in favour of IA64 by 2004.From www.heise.de:

"Continuing development of the RISC CPUs keeps getting more and more difficult and expensive, while Itanium is just beginning itīs lifetime cycle", Brown [Market Communications Manager HP] backs up the HP decission. Moreover, so Brown, Itanium systems will get cheaper simply because of higher production numbers, as opposed to house-made PA-RISCs.